GNOME Decides to Ditch Drawings (Linux Journal)

While Firefox isn't a Gnome app, apparently the theme it's using in that screenshot is one specifically written to make Firefox fit in well with Gnome. And I gather that one of the impressive things about the theme is that it does a better job of implementing the old official policy for menu icons than anything else. And this is two of the reasons why they changed that policy :-). (The first being that no-one gets close to implementing it properly, and the second being that if you did, it would suck.)

>There's repeated icons, there's a missing icon, the outlines of the icons aren't varied enough, and then there's the icon with a magnifying lens. This time it doesn't mean search or magnify. It is for a view (print preview).

Uhm, all that seems to be a mishap of the default GNOME theme. If you install, say, gtk2-theme-nimbus, you don't get repeated icons, and the print preview also has no magnifying glass, though of course, you have to take a few more empty spots for it.

Next time a better example of Gnome UI would be to use a Gnome application or at least a GTK application.. of which Firefox is neither. :)